My Newest Mac

Well shoot, the video memory on RobBook is failing and my iEverything is on hold until I get it repaired. It failed a couple of weeks ago and I stopped then and made a good backup (excellent backup, duplicate on two different devices, stuff isn't safe unless it's in two places right?). Along the way doing that the problem went away. So I had some time to consider how things need to be when it's time to take advantage of AppleCare.

Yesterday morning it failed again and I executed the first part of the plan: went out and bought My Newest Mac, a delightful 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo Mac Mini. I really tried to convince myself to get the lesser unit but in the end the Double-layer SuperDrive seemed very important. And dual CPU's will make it nice too perhaps. Anyway I've got a new machine which will either be just for fun but can provide the necessary fall-back to my PowerBook, or a new primary desktop ride to supplement the laptop... not sure which. For right now, it has allowed me to produce a solid snapshot of where things were at before the laptop failed.

Now I need to figure out just what I need to do in order to keep going after I nuke the laptop's contents and send it off for repairs. This is extra tricky because miniRobWorld is an Intel chip and the "Upgrade From Old Mac" option will cause everything to be converted to run on the new CPU. I don't think this could make any difference for the key data but who knows. I definitely don't want this to be a one-way trip, but I also don't want to confront reinstalling every application and setting right now. I need to get back to iProductivity.

Things would be more obvious if I could afford the memory upgrade soon to bring miniRW up to the 2 gigs that I enjoy on RobBook but I'm over-extended as it is so it might be a long time for that. Instead, well I'm doing the most obvious thing (aforementioned auto-upgrade) for the next 1.5 hours and I hope I'm back online soon... and if indeed something doesn't want to return to the PowerPC I guess I'll figure that out once RobBook comes back factory fresh and ready to go again.

More soon. I will say in closing, the Mac Mini sure seems sweet. Fast and quiet and just really nice!

My Newest Mac

Tuesday, Jun 13 at 6:42 AM